Cuban Five condemn Israeli aggression in Gaza

The following Jan. 21 urgent message to the Palestinian people was translated by Granma International. Go to www.granma.cu. These Cuban heroes have been falsely jailed in U.S. prisons for over 10 years for defending their homeland against U.S.-backed terrorist acts organized by right-wing Cubans in Miami and elsewhere.

It is with profound pain and infinite indignation that we have witnessed the criminal massacre of the Palestinian people; there are no words to describe this holocaust. The death of every innocent child, woman and man and the destruction of the homeland’s holy ground are crimes against humanity and debts that will someday be paid for dearly by the governments of Israel, the United States—which supports the former—and international imperialism.

From five prisons scattered throughout the bowels of the United States, we condemn this crime with all our strength. We demand that the barbarity stop now, and we send all of our love and support from the deepest part of our souls to the beloved Palestinian people. We will be with you today and always. If there is one thing that profoundly hurts us about our imprisonment, it is that we cannot do much more for you, for your cause, for our peoples, but we trust that soon we will be able to accompany you physically.

The world must unite and condemn the Israeli government, the United States government and the imperialist governments, creators of holocausts.

Stop the war and massacre! Long live the Palestinian people! ¡Venceremos!

The Cuban Five,
Antonio Guerrero
René González
Fernando González
Gerardo Hernández
Ramón Labañino